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A yawning face, service and guide dogs, and a lone drop of blood that’s being called the “period emoji” by a girls’ rights group are just three of the new emojis found in Unicode’s official 2019 update of the ubiquitous telecom ideograms. It’s set to roll out this spring, CNN reports, and various smartphone operating […]

At long last, Facebook is implementing a new Messenger feature that gives users the ability to fully remove messages—from everyone’s view—in a conversation on the social media messaging app. This, after Facebook co-founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly already had the Messenger unsend capability at his disposal, as pointed out by CNBC. How does it work? Just […]

Looks like we may be getting a peek at the first fruits of the tech-forward Motorola RAZR comeback movement. And recent filings showing some mobile device hardware has some outlets anticipating a folding phone screen on the device. Take a look at the images right here. What you’re seeing is the World Intellectual Property Organization […]

Your Spotify Discover Weekly playlist may soon be curated by a company. But will it eventually turn into one giant advertisement? The streaming music outpost is now beta testing a new ad format for its weekly personalized playlist. That means Discover Weekly is being opened up to advertisers, Adweek reports. And the first sponsored playlist […]

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is urging a boycott of Facebook today after two new reports show Russian trolls specifically targeted black communities on the platform during the 2016 election. The reports (from Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and cybersecurity firm New Knowledge) confirm previous suspicions of Russian meddling in […]

Snapchat use drops for the third straight year as YouTube takes the top spot on Apple‘s recently released list of the most-downloaded iPhone apps of 2018, meaning the video sharing company can now officially consider itself the “most popular iPhone app of the year,” as noted by Mashable. So, did you snap or cruise the […]

It looks like Facebook and Instagram are currently down for some. And the parent company behind the “Facebook family of apps” is confirming certain users’ trouble accessing the social networking applications as of late Tuesday morning. But how about you, are you able to use Facebook or Insta right now? Read more: Why is Tumblr […]

Facebook claims it’s fixed a bug that allowed websites to obtain information from a user’s profile, including their “likes” and interests, after security researcher Ron Masas zeroed in on the particular social media exploit, reports TechCrunch. Read more: ‘Harry Potter’ fan tries to adopt Tom Felton Masas, who works for cybersecurity company Imperva, found that […]

Samsung just unveiled a foldable phone, the malleable mobile sporting new tech the company’s calling Infinity Flex. Essentially a smartphone that can open up on itself to become tablet-sized, the prototype’s got tech lovers talking since it’s the first device that actually has a folding screen. That’s right, there’s a hinge inside the screen. Read […]

Twitter just lost a whopping 9 million users, the company behind the social networking service announced today, in an ongoing effort to wipe out bots and spam on the platform while making more money in the long run. And it appears to be working. Twitter made a profit for the fourth successive quarter, as reported […]

It’s almost a given that you’re going to feel lonely at some point in your life. And a new survey says that young people are the loneliest age group, overall. But that may not be due solely to smartphone use, as is often suggested. Read more: Apple update makes fear of texting the wrong person […]